Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:25:01 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Two questions: Moving Directories, Ctrl-Z Message-ID: <20010316222501.F3596@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010316202101.A2454@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from myoung@intrinsic.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:16:31PM -0800 On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:16:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Mark Allan Young wrote: >> >One thing I've noticed that changed with our recent upgrade >> >to 1.1.8 was that moving a directory now seems to perform a copy >> >and remove rather than just renaming a directory. Is there a way >> >to just force the rename? what's the benefit of the copy over the >> >rename? >> >> I just tried this. An "mv" in cygwin moves the directory without >> copying. >> >> If it isn't doing this for you we'll need details. > >I tried this again and it started to do a copy... > >then I looked around my system and found another cygwin window >opened to a directory within the directory that I was trying to >move. Ok. The official answer to this problem is "Don't do that." cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple